It's parents and teachers who create raggers out of our children. I am sure that after reading the heading, everyone must be restless to know how?
It's parents and teachers who create raggers out of our children. I am sure that after reading the heading, everyone must be restless to know how?
To fulfil their own aspirations, many parents in our country still force their children to choose a career path, which they think is socially reputed. So, in a rat race, a kid ends upu00a0 becoming what their parents demand ufffd the most conventional career being of an engineer or a doctor.
u00a0The engineering and medical colleges of India are the havens of the worst possible ragging in this country.
Students who are locked up in rooms for three or four yearsu00a0generally don't have a clear idea of what socialising really means. Also, a healthy socialisation happens when there is a good ratio of the opposite sex.
Otherwise, socialisation takes perverted and sadistic forms.
That's when you call a junior and tell him, "This is my underwear. You will wash it for the next one year. But, before that, open your underwear and run around the campus."
While growing up, a set of my senior friends encountered the same situation on joining a reputed engineering college. They were aghast. I was aghast too. Not then; but next year when those same friends of mine asked us to do the similar thing. I protested, "Weren't you crying last year, that it was so ugly and so humiliating? And today you are a part of this?" Pat came the reply, "Arindam, we realised one thing... Ragging se personality banti hai boss..."
I was studying management and behavioural science then. And I knew by then their personalities had become retarded forever. And by pushing them, their parents had not only lost them forever, they had also made them potential ragging killers too.
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They never found the joy of becoming passionate readers, sportsmen, friends and normal human beings. Their
suppressed frustration forced them unknowingly to take to ragging as a release ufffd rather a volcanic eruption.
Last year alone, there were 19 ragging deaths in India and four attempted suicides according to a report by Coalition to Uproot Ragging from Education. In the last six months itself, the ragging helpline has received more than 1.5 lakh calls.
In wake of all this, parents must take a moment and think ufffd did they give the right education to their children? Or while forcing them to study like maniacs, they made them potential ragging killers? Teachers should also answer one question. Did they give the right lessons or did they only concentrate on finishing their wretched course syllabus?
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